MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Spread offenses are known for allowing quarterbacks to find holes all across a defense. Receivers can leak into open space or slide underneath of coverage. They can even take the top off the defense, sometimes without even being noticed. But tight ends? They might be the most dangerous tool for a QB in a spread offense.
West Virginia's football team is working toward implementing more plays that feature a tight end actually catching passes heading into the 2018 season, coaches said this spring. And the consensus seems to be that the Mountaineers finally have the pieces in place to do it.
"It will be a big change moving forward," Dana Holgorsen said this spring. "(Trevon) Wesco is a different body than Eli (Wellman), so we will be able to do different things. (Miami transfer) Jovanni Haskins is a different body than what I've had here since I have been here. We have a couple that we recruited that are coming in as well. We are still playing with stuff so what the end result is I don't know. It's pretty exciting to be able to mess around with that stuff, that's for sure."
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